Re: Physical Tape Alternatives?

To be clear I didn't recommend against this specific product. I recommend that your recovery procedure needs to not require FTPing objects around the world after rebuilding your system from DVDs.

As this product integrates with BRMS that is not a problem.

It still requires space for the saves on the system and a lot of internet bandwidth if you need to recover large amounts of data but it's not the 'FTP things around for backup and recovery' problem.


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On 1/16/2020 5:56 PM, Kevin Monceaux wrote:

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:08:44PM +0000, Tim Rowe wrote:

There is a new product 5770ICC

I mentioned that product in my initial post, and DrFranken strongly advised
against it. I already had concerns about it before then. The latest users
guideI could find on it was from 2017. The users guide and some articles I
found said it could only be installed on a single LPAR. I also saw claims
that backups could only be restored to the same machine the backup was run
on.